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Efforts continue to free U. S. hostages
From oar wire services
Abolhassan Bani- Sa- dr took over Iran's for-eign
policy Saturday in Tehran with an appeal
to the American people to' give up the deposed
shah,' the greatest criminal history has seen "
Thus, the first public act of the new foreign
minister was a declaration of support for the
students who have held the American embassy
and scores of hostages since Sunday, demand-ing
the return to Iran of the shah, who is being
treated in New York for cancer
Despite the stand that Bani- Sad- r took in a
speech broadcast by the state radio, he contin-ued
what he described to reporters as efforts to
find a way out of the impasse over the embassy
and its hostages, who were visited Saturday by
diplomats of four countries and reported in
good health
Diplomats from Algeria, France, Sweden and
Syria, made what they termed a humanitarian
visit to check on the welfare of the hostages
They estimated that they had seen about 60 per-sons
Reporters were not allowed to accompany the
envoys, but the diplomats said the students ap-peared
to be giving the hostages better treat- -
ment than they did on Sunday, I , i see whether thev can play a role in
when they seized the embassy u s s t YJ5 freeing the hostages
" We have not heard any major p tlT DBut, , u , mv ,, ,
complaints about health," said Am- - r ' ? evcamf K? Z?
bassador MK Sundberg of Swe-- U, I , TfRt hHS den " Of course, they seemed tired, X Jr h A PL0 " 1? 1 ? ldrffhT?
which is natural Our s 1' kH'IUlQTL ? HatoAJf35ePt that health conditions
impression are general- - 7 forts Already the leaders of Al Fa--
ly good " ( HMU.'. muarg tah the main guerrilla group in the
WBflJwffirrofl PLO are under attack from more
Bani- Sa- dr met with L. Bruce V. radical organizations, including
Laingen, the American charge ' J ' jM the Popular Front for the Liber--
d'affaires under guard in the For- - EftagJESSjil SH1RAZ atl0n 0f Palestine and Synan- -
eign Ministry building smce the oa backed s Saiqa for the efforts on
takeover of the embassy 0jTV ' V behalf of the Americans
He also met Saturday morning u '
- -- rhg aat0Uah who has thus far
with two officials of the Palestine V", , rebuffed all attempts at negotia- -
Liberation OrganzaUon, Abu Walid tions. met Saturdav with the rer- -
and Ham al- Hass- an, head of the
PLO's office here Hassan returned Saturday
morning from Beirut, where he conferred with
Yastr Arafat, head of the PLO
Bani- Sad- r was scheduled to meet with them
again
The Palestinians, despiteea rebuff from Aya- tolla- h
Ruhollah Khomeini the Islamic revo-lutionary
authority are still quietly trying to
resentative of Pope John Paul II,
Bishop Annibale Bugnim who went to the holy
city of Qom to deln er a personal appeal from
the pope to free the hostages
Khomeini promised to reply to the message
but said he could not free the hostages because
the problem is not in my hands ( but) in the
( See KHOMEINI, Page 6A)
Carter: Deport Iranian aliens
From our wire services
WASHINGTON President Carter, con
cerned that demonstrations in the United States
could have an adverse effect on American hos-tages
in Iran, on Saturday ordered the Justice
Department to deport Iranian students who are
violating the terms of their entry visas
White House press secretary Jody Powell
said there is good reason to believe mam of the
50,000 Iranians in the United States on student
visas are violating immigration laws
He said the Justice Department was ordered
to take the necessary steps to commence de-portation
proceedings' against those who have
violated immigration laws
The order applies only to students and presu-mably
to persons here on student visas who are
no longer attending classes
Powell noted that simply participating in a le-gal
demonstration would not be cause for de-portation,
since a person legally in this country
is deemed to have the same constitutional
rights as a U. S citizen
The Immigration and Naturalization Service
will issue a notice requiring Iranian students to
report their location and status to the nearest
INS office Powell said But he did not know
precisely when that would happen
Powell also asked the three major networks
Demonstrators picket the Iranian Embassy in
New York and Texans hold a rally to burn an
Iranian flag, see Page 4A
Saturdav to show maximum possible re-straint
in covering protests against Iranian
students in the United States
Powell summoned Ed Fouhy, Washington
CBS bureau chief, Sid Davis, Washington NBC
bureau chief and Kevin Delaney assistant
Washington ABC bureau chief
He said the president had noted the cover
age of the demostrations here in the United
States and expressed the hope that maximum
possible restraint would be exercised in cover
ing those demonstrations," Fouhy told report-ers
Inside today I
1 UPIteficfto B
The KKK
I The Ku Kluz Klan is in the news
I again. This Klansman salutes
S crowds during a peaceful march
" 3 through downtown Kingsport, Tenn
f Li Greensboro, N C , 1,000 police
and National Guardsmen prepare
for the funeral procession of the five
slam anti- Kla- n protesters today Lo-- fi
tally, Centralia considers ways to I
control the Klan See stones on I
I Pages6Aand8A.
Steel vs. lead
Duck hunters have grown fond of
lead shot over the years But now it
is known that water- -
fowl eat the shots that fjpj
miss and die of lead I JM
poisoning Learn II about the lead shot vs jjtJjjrt
steel shot controversy ( jlPSjjffl?
on the Background un" 1" 1" 11" 1
page, 5C I
Index I
Background ............................ J5C n
Business .. - UC I
Movie listings 7A g
Opinion 4C
People ......... 1C 1
Sports IB 1
Iiitowra I
today I
2 pjn. Dances from 10 Eastern
European and East Mediterranen I
countnes will be performed by the I
Columbia International Folk Dane-- I
ers, Launer Auditonum, Columbia 1
College $ 1 adults, 75 cents students,
SO cents children.
I pjn. " Diary of Anne Frank," 1
play, Stephens College Playhouse. 1
$ 3.50 general public, $ 1 75 Stephens 1
faculty, students, senior aureus. B
Z: p. m. wad 7: 28 pan. " Caba- - g
ret," play, University Fine Arts H
Building $ 3JS0 general public, $ 1 75 g
students
Monday I
i pjn. City Council meets to veri-- 1
fy Third Ward election results, I
fourth floor, County- Cit- y Building. 1 I 1: 15 p. m. Faculty recital, Univer--
sity Music Department, featuring g
music for oboe, French horn and pi-- 1
ano, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Free El
Worth County replies j
by locking its doors j
after voters call bluff
By Julie Wieas
Missourian staff writer
GRANT CITY, Mo Some people
here thought county officials were
bluffing But while Boone County came
alive after Tuesday's election, Worth
County was strangled out of a proposed
50- ce- nt property tax levy increase
deemed vital to keeping the county's
head above water
Missouri's smallest county is a tiny
rural patch in the northwest part of the
state, along the Iowa border Some 3,- 1- 00
people and six small towns live
within the confines of Worth County, '
believed to be the first county forced to
close its courthouse doors
While Boone County will receive an
extra $ 1 1 million during the next year
from the half- cen- t sales tax. Worth
County judges must stretch a tiny gen-eral
revenue budget of about $ 111,000
to meet some $ 117,000 worth of state- mandat- ed
expenses The county has
been treading water on federal reve-nue
sharing funds
The proposed tax measure fell short
of the required two- thir- ds vote nec-essary
with 60 percent of the county's
1,409 voters approving the increase In
August, a M- ce- nt tax levy increase pro-posal
fell short by the same amount
Voters here have turned down a tax in-crease
six tunes in the past five years
So on Friday, the doors to the 80- year-- old
courthouse in Grant City,
county seat for Worth, were locked for
the rest of this year because the county
lacked the funds to pay for utilities
The doors might not be reopened until
as late as May 1, " when the weather's
wanner," said Worth County Presid-ing
Judge Bill Cottrell.
Until then, county officials will be
working out of makeshift offices in
their homes or in scattered offices
around town. The road and bridge de-partment
and the county jail will be
shutdown.
Sheriff Jack Baker was planning to
answer emergency calls only But Fri-day
Gov. Joseph Teasdale ordered fed-eral
money to be used until Jan 15 to
provide a sheriffs car and pay the
sheriff, his deputy and a dispatcher
Teasdale also has ordered the Missouri
Highway Patrol to help provide protec-tion
to citizens in the troubled county
IK JSB& l 8? ' fl i
ffl A !'
Custodian Albert Stevens clamps a lock
on the Worth County Courthouse door
after voters rejected a half-- cent tax
increase. County officials said they
needed the extra funds to keep the
county solvent Now the courts are
closed for the rest of the year
With $ 14 000 left in the countv s pock
et for 1979, Cottrell said No ember ex-penses
will siphon the budget dry In-cluded
in November s expenses
ironically, is nearly $ 3,000 in election
costs
Knowing there would be no Decern
ber paychecks until next year a few
county employees remained as strag
glers in the courthouse Friday to pack
files, shift furniture and move their
' offices" elsewhere
They will return to the courthouse
only for necessities, such as to transfer
records to books which must remain in
vaults ,
Combination Circuit Clerk and Coun-ty
Recorder Bill Maxwell said he
would receive records at home and
" let them stack up awhile" before he
records them in a vault in the court
house " There'll be no heat or lights in
the building" he said"
Maxwell said all court dates have
been rescheduled for after the first of
the year, but one Dec 12 trial could not
be reset
County Clerk Larry Thompson lean
and lanky, wore a fancy Western shirt.
JaBeWtaa
cowbov boots and a Stetson hat He
spent his last day in the courthouse
packing files and answering phone
calls and reporters questions
Thompson said this is not the first
time voters rejected a tax increase
We ve run this tax levy for three or
four times Its never passed, but
we vealwavs been able to get by A lot
of them don't believe we're in as se-rious
shape as we are "
Thompson said some of the fiscal
problems resulted because, over the
years the budget was planned in anUc- lpaUo- n
of voter approval of higher tax
leves
Eastern District Judge Roy Claypool
said another reason for the rejection
was that some of the voters were " car-rying
a grudge" because of a school
district consolidation four years ago
Scattered districts were reorganized
into a central school district in Grant
City Some of the older people were
hard set against losing their schools I
don't think they ever got over it," Clay- po- ol
said
Opponents of the tax increase also
have argued that the courthouse is
overstaffed Some have said countv of-ficials
could manage the budget more
efficiently
Cottrell said the county cannot keep
up with state- mandat- ed salary increas-es
for countv officials He said the
propertv tax base is not large enough
He said home rule might be the an-swer
If we could have home rule we
could abolish our charter, establish
only the offices we need and set our
own salaries,' he said
If we don't get this straightened
out, the state should put a blanket in-crease
on property taxes or some-thing.'
Cottrell said But if this keeps
hangm' on, we could try to consolidate
with another county "
But consolidation in Worth county al-ready
is a dirty word
If nothing else, the trauma in tiny
Worth County might call attention to
troubles faced by many small rural
counties in Missouri ' Hopefully, some
adjoining counties can see what's hap-pened
to us Maybe the state can help
or put a stop to it before it happens to
them," Claypool said
Inventors
of new clock
fear spies
By Carey Wilson
Missourian staff writer
University inventors who created
what they call a revolutionary digital
timing system fear one of the principal
companies m that field has been spyinp
on their research
A University employee and a student
who have been helping with the devel-opment
of the invention reported that
two men, who identified themselves as
employees of Simplex Time Recorders
Lie , photographed the new device
Company officials denied any picture
taking
And two of the prototype digital
clocks were stolen from the walls of
the University's Electrical Engi-neering
Building Universitv officials
have no clues in the theft
Mike Anderson, an electrical engi-neering
student assisting inventor
John Uhlig, said two men in business
suits questioned him last August
about the new clocks Anderson said
the men identified themselves as Sim-plex
representativ es and took pictures
of the clocks
The invention, actually one central
clock coordinates the time on a net-work
of clocks The timing device was
designed for large institutions, such as
factories or universities, where the en-tire
workforce operates on a common
schedule
The episode began when the experi-mental
Uhlig clocks were installed in
the Electrical Engineering Building
The inventors took down the existing
clocks made by Simplex and notified
the company its clocks wouldn't be
used in that building
Anderson said that two Simplex men
arrived in early August and asked him
whether the timing devices had been
built or were purchased from someone
else
After a witness reported the men
photographing the clocks, the men also
tried to enter a research lab to look
around and take more pictures Ander-son
refused
About six weeks later, two of the 20
clocks in the hallway were stolen Uni-versity
authorities are unsure if the
theft was lndustnataspwnage or mere-ly
vandalism
Dale Warren, Simplex's Columbia
( See INVENTORS, Page 6A)
New law tough on student loan defaults
By SamU Miter
Missoartaa staff writer
Students who attended college with
the asrinUmre of loans now will have a
harder time using the bankruptcy
courts to avoid repaying their debts af-ter
graduation
An amendment to the federal bank-ruptcy
law that went into effect Oct 1
has made it more difficult to avoid re-payment
" The whole bankruptcy act, not just
the part that relates to student loans,
was amended," said Ted Ayres, a law-yer
for the University system.
Under the changes, student loans
Insight
won't be allowed to be included in any
bankruptcy petition unless they have
been due five years or repayment of
the loan would create a special hard-ship
on the borrower, he said
The only action the school could take
m cases filed before October was to
provide evidence the student has an
outstanding loan with the University,
but nothing could be done about getting
the money back unless it was a federal-ly
insured loan.
The federal government had moved
in 1976 to stop avoidance of repayment
of federally backed student loans
through bankruptcy A provision of the
higher education bill, signed by former
President Gerald Ford, said a borrow-er
can't include guaranteed student
loans in any bankruptcy proceedings
for five years after leaving college, ex-cept
in " extreme hardship cases "
The recent changes in federal law
broadens that protection to include oth-er
types of student loans also
" The law is now applicable to educa-tional
loans funded by the government,
schools or non- prof- it organizations,"
Ayres said
So far, the University hasn't needed
to use the law since it became effective
last month
Ayres said guaranteed student loans
help the student and the University
Students who normally can't afford an
education are allowed to pay for it af-ter
graduation, and the University gets
additional students who wouldn't be
able to attend without loan assistance.
But he said the system doesn't work
when students fail to repay their loans.
Not only is the money lost, but the de-fault
rate can affect the amount of
money available for future students
After graduation, a student previous-ly
had three alternatives concerning
loan repayment
v Pay off the loan and maintain a
good credit rating.
Default on the loan and face possi-ble
prosecution by either the school or
the federal government
Pile for bankruptcy and eliminate
the loan along with other debts
After graduation, many students
have problems paying their bills, and
some are tempted to try the third alter-native
They have been ante to wipe
out through bankruptcy, their debts
and make a fresh start with diploma in
( See NEW, Page 13A)

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Alabama 3 Texas 21 Missouri 18 Tennessee 40 Purdue 24
I LSU 0 Houston 13 Iowa State 9 Notre Dame 18 Michigan 21
I 72ml Your No. 51 ( mmmI Moriiinj:! It'. umln. ociiilxr I I. I) 7f 5 Sections 60 I'aes 35 Cents
Efforts continue to free U. S. hostages
From oar wire services
Abolhassan Bani- Sa- dr took over Iran's for-eign
policy Saturday in Tehran with an appeal
to the American people to' give up the deposed
shah,' the greatest criminal history has seen "
Thus, the first public act of the new foreign
minister was a declaration of support for the
students who have held the American embassy
and scores of hostages since Sunday, demand-ing
the return to Iran of the shah, who is being
treated in New York for cancer
Despite the stand that Bani- Sad- r took in a
speech broadcast by the state radio, he contin-ued
what he described to reporters as efforts to
find a way out of the impasse over the embassy
and its hostages, who were visited Saturday by
diplomats of four countries and reported in
good health
Diplomats from Algeria, France, Sweden and
Syria, made what they termed a humanitarian
visit to check on the welfare of the hostages
They estimated that they had seen about 60 per-sons
Reporters were not allowed to accompany the
envoys, but the diplomats said the students ap-peared
to be giving the hostages better treat- -
ment than they did on Sunday, I , i see whether thev can play a role in
when they seized the embassy u s s t YJ5 freeing the hostages
" We have not heard any major p tlT DBut, , u , mv ,, ,
complaints about health," said Am- - r ' ? evcamf K? Z?
bassador MK Sundberg of Swe-- U, I , TfRt hHS den " Of course, they seemed tired, X Jr h A PL0 " 1? 1 ? ldrffhT?
which is natural Our s 1' kH'IUlQTL ? HatoAJf35ePt that health conditions
impression are general- - 7 forts Already the leaders of Al Fa--
ly good " ( HMU.'. muarg tah the main guerrilla group in the
WBflJwffirrofl PLO are under attack from more
Bani- Sa- dr met with L. Bruce V. radical organizations, including
Laingen, the American charge ' J ' jM the Popular Front for the Liber--
d'affaires under guard in the For- - EftagJESSjil SH1RAZ atl0n 0f Palestine and Synan- -
eign Ministry building smce the oa backed s Saiqa for the efforts on
takeover of the embassy 0jTV ' V behalf of the Americans
He also met Saturday morning u '
- -- rhg aat0Uah who has thus far
with two officials of the Palestine V", , rebuffed all attempts at negotia- -
Liberation OrganzaUon, Abu Walid tions. met Saturdav with the rer- -
and Ham al- Hass- an, head of the
PLO's office here Hassan returned Saturday
morning from Beirut, where he conferred with
Yastr Arafat, head of the PLO
Bani- Sad- r was scheduled to meet with them
again
The Palestinians, despiteea rebuff from Aya- tolla- h
Ruhollah Khomeini the Islamic revo-lutionary
authority are still quietly trying to
resentative of Pope John Paul II,
Bishop Annibale Bugnim who went to the holy
city of Qom to deln er a personal appeal from
the pope to free the hostages
Khomeini promised to reply to the message
but said he could not free the hostages because
the problem is not in my hands ( but) in the
( See KHOMEINI, Page 6A)
Carter: Deport Iranian aliens
From our wire services
WASHINGTON President Carter, con
cerned that demonstrations in the United States
could have an adverse effect on American hos-tages
in Iran, on Saturday ordered the Justice
Department to deport Iranian students who are
violating the terms of their entry visas
White House press secretary Jody Powell
said there is good reason to believe mam of the
50,000 Iranians in the United States on student
visas are violating immigration laws
He said the Justice Department was ordered
to take the necessary steps to commence de-portation
proceedings' against those who have
violated immigration laws
The order applies only to students and presu-mably
to persons here on student visas who are
no longer attending classes
Powell noted that simply participating in a le-gal
demonstration would not be cause for de-portation,
since a person legally in this country
is deemed to have the same constitutional
rights as a U. S citizen
The Immigration and Naturalization Service
will issue a notice requiring Iranian students to
report their location and status to the nearest
INS office Powell said But he did not know
precisely when that would happen
Powell also asked the three major networks
Demonstrators picket the Iranian Embassy in
New York and Texans hold a rally to burn an
Iranian flag, see Page 4A
Saturdav to show maximum possible re-straint
in covering protests against Iranian
students in the United States
Powell summoned Ed Fouhy, Washington
CBS bureau chief, Sid Davis, Washington NBC
bureau chief and Kevin Delaney assistant
Washington ABC bureau chief
He said the president had noted the cover
age of the demostrations here in the United
States and expressed the hope that maximum
possible restraint would be exercised in cover
ing those demonstrations," Fouhy told report-ers
Inside today I
1 UPIteficfto B
The KKK
I The Ku Kluz Klan is in the news
I again. This Klansman salutes
S crowds during a peaceful march
" 3 through downtown Kingsport, Tenn
f Li Greensboro, N C , 1,000 police
and National Guardsmen prepare
for the funeral procession of the five
slam anti- Kla- n protesters today Lo-- fi
tally, Centralia considers ways to I
control the Klan See stones on I
I Pages6Aand8A.
Steel vs. lead
Duck hunters have grown fond of
lead shot over the years But now it
is known that water- -
fowl eat the shots that fjpj
miss and die of lead I JM
poisoning Learn II about the lead shot vs jjtJjjrt
steel shot controversy ( jlPSjjffl?
on the Background un" 1" 1" 11" 1
page, 5C I
Index I
Background ............................ J5C n
Business .. - UC I
Movie listings 7A g
Opinion 4C
People ......... 1C 1
Sports IB 1
Iiitowra I
today I
2 pjn. Dances from 10 Eastern
European and East Mediterranen I
countnes will be performed by the I
Columbia International Folk Dane-- I
ers, Launer Auditonum, Columbia 1
College $ 1 adults, 75 cents students,
SO cents children.
I pjn. " Diary of Anne Frank," 1
play, Stephens College Playhouse. 1
$ 3.50 general public, $ 1 75 Stephens 1
faculty, students, senior aureus. B
Z: p. m. wad 7: 28 pan. " Caba- - g
ret," play, University Fine Arts H
Building $ 3JS0 general public, $ 1 75 g
students
Monday I
i pjn. City Council meets to veri-- 1
fy Third Ward election results, I
fourth floor, County- Cit- y Building. 1 I 1: 15 p. m. Faculty recital, Univer--
sity Music Department, featuring g
music for oboe, French horn and pi-- 1
ano, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Free El
Worth County replies j
by locking its doors j
after voters call bluff
By Julie Wieas
Missourian staff writer
GRANT CITY, Mo Some people
here thought county officials were
bluffing But while Boone County came
alive after Tuesday's election, Worth
County was strangled out of a proposed
50- ce- nt property tax levy increase
deemed vital to keeping the county's
head above water
Missouri's smallest county is a tiny
rural patch in the northwest part of the
state, along the Iowa border Some 3,- 1- 00
people and six small towns live
within the confines of Worth County, '
believed to be the first county forced to
close its courthouse doors
While Boone County will receive an
extra $ 1 1 million during the next year
from the half- cen- t sales tax. Worth
County judges must stretch a tiny gen-eral
revenue budget of about $ 111,000
to meet some $ 117,000 worth of state- mandat- ed
expenses The county has
been treading water on federal reve-nue
sharing funds
The proposed tax measure fell short
of the required two- thir- ds vote nec-essary
with 60 percent of the county's
1,409 voters approving the increase In
August, a M- ce- nt tax levy increase pro-posal
fell short by the same amount
Voters here have turned down a tax in-crease
six tunes in the past five years
So on Friday, the doors to the 80- year-- old
courthouse in Grant City,
county seat for Worth, were locked for
the rest of this year because the county
lacked the funds to pay for utilities
The doors might not be reopened until
as late as May 1, " when the weather's
wanner," said Worth County Presid-ing
Judge Bill Cottrell.
Until then, county officials will be
working out of makeshift offices in
their homes or in scattered offices
around town. The road and bridge de-partment
and the county jail will be
shutdown.
Sheriff Jack Baker was planning to
answer emergency calls only But Fri-day
Gov. Joseph Teasdale ordered fed-eral
money to be used until Jan 15 to
provide a sheriffs car and pay the
sheriff, his deputy and a dispatcher
Teasdale also has ordered the Missouri
Highway Patrol to help provide protec-tion
to citizens in the troubled county
IK JSB& l 8? ' fl i
ffl A !'
Custodian Albert Stevens clamps a lock
on the Worth County Courthouse door
after voters rejected a half-- cent tax
increase. County officials said they
needed the extra funds to keep the
county solvent Now the courts are
closed for the rest of the year
With $ 14 000 left in the countv s pock
et for 1979, Cottrell said No ember ex-penses
will siphon the budget dry In-cluded
in November s expenses
ironically, is nearly $ 3,000 in election
costs
Knowing there would be no Decern
ber paychecks until next year a few
county employees remained as strag
glers in the courthouse Friday to pack
files, shift furniture and move their
' offices" elsewhere
They will return to the courthouse
only for necessities, such as to transfer
records to books which must remain in
vaults ,
Combination Circuit Clerk and Coun-ty
Recorder Bill Maxwell said he
would receive records at home and
" let them stack up awhile" before he
records them in a vault in the court
house " There'll be no heat or lights in
the building" he said"
Maxwell said all court dates have
been rescheduled for after the first of
the year, but one Dec 12 trial could not
be reset
County Clerk Larry Thompson lean
and lanky, wore a fancy Western shirt.
JaBeWtaa
cowbov boots and a Stetson hat He
spent his last day in the courthouse
packing files and answering phone
calls and reporters questions
Thompson said this is not the first
time voters rejected a tax increase
We ve run this tax levy for three or
four times Its never passed, but
we vealwavs been able to get by A lot
of them don't believe we're in as se-rious
shape as we are "
Thompson said some of the fiscal
problems resulted because, over the
years the budget was planned in anUc- lpaUo- n
of voter approval of higher tax
leves
Eastern District Judge Roy Claypool
said another reason for the rejection
was that some of the voters were " car-rying
a grudge" because of a school
district consolidation four years ago
Scattered districts were reorganized
into a central school district in Grant
City Some of the older people were
hard set against losing their schools I
don't think they ever got over it," Clay- po- ol
said
Opponents of the tax increase also
have argued that the courthouse is
overstaffed Some have said countv of-ficials
could manage the budget more
efficiently
Cottrell said the county cannot keep
up with state- mandat- ed salary increas-es
for countv officials He said the
propertv tax base is not large enough
He said home rule might be the an-swer
If we could have home rule we
could abolish our charter, establish
only the offices we need and set our
own salaries,' he said
If we don't get this straightened
out, the state should put a blanket in-crease
on property taxes or some-thing.'
Cottrell said But if this keeps
hangm' on, we could try to consolidate
with another county "
But consolidation in Worth county al-ready
is a dirty word
If nothing else, the trauma in tiny
Worth County might call attention to
troubles faced by many small rural
counties in Missouri ' Hopefully, some
adjoining counties can see what's hap-pened
to us Maybe the state can help
or put a stop to it before it happens to
them," Claypool said
Inventors
of new clock
fear spies
By Carey Wilson
Missourian staff writer
University inventors who created
what they call a revolutionary digital
timing system fear one of the principal
companies m that field has been spyinp
on their research
A University employee and a student
who have been helping with the devel-opment
of the invention reported that
two men, who identified themselves as
employees of Simplex Time Recorders
Lie , photographed the new device
Company officials denied any picture
taking
And two of the prototype digital
clocks were stolen from the walls of
the University's Electrical Engi-neering
Building Universitv officials
have no clues in the theft
Mike Anderson, an electrical engi-neering
student assisting inventor
John Uhlig, said two men in business
suits questioned him last August
about the new clocks Anderson said
the men identified themselves as Sim-plex
representativ es and took pictures
of the clocks
The invention, actually one central
clock coordinates the time on a net-work
of clocks The timing device was
designed for large institutions, such as
factories or universities, where the en-tire
workforce operates on a common
schedule
The episode began when the experi-mental
Uhlig clocks were installed in
the Electrical Engineering Building
The inventors took down the existing
clocks made by Simplex and notified
the company its clocks wouldn't be
used in that building
Anderson said that two Simplex men
arrived in early August and asked him
whether the timing devices had been
built or were purchased from someone
else
After a witness reported the men
photographing the clocks, the men also
tried to enter a research lab to look
around and take more pictures Ander-son
refused
About six weeks later, two of the 20
clocks in the hallway were stolen Uni-versity
authorities are unsure if the
theft was lndustnataspwnage or mere-ly
vandalism
Dale Warren, Simplex's Columbia
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New law tough on student loan defaults
By SamU Miter
Missoartaa staff writer
Students who attended college with
the asrinUmre of loans now will have a
harder time using the bankruptcy
courts to avoid repaying their debts af-ter
graduation
An amendment to the federal bank-ruptcy
law that went into effect Oct 1
has made it more difficult to avoid re-payment
" The whole bankruptcy act, not just
the part that relates to student loans,
was amended," said Ted Ayres, a law-yer
for the University system.
Under the changes, student loans
Insight
won't be allowed to be included in any
bankruptcy petition unless they have
been due five years or repayment of
the loan would create a special hard-ship
on the borrower, he said
The only action the school could take
m cases filed before October was to
provide evidence the student has an
outstanding loan with the University,
but nothing could be done about getting
the money back unless it was a federal-ly
insured loan.
The federal government had moved
in 1976 to stop avoidance of repayment
of federally backed student loans
through bankruptcy A provision of the
higher education bill, signed by former
President Gerald Ford, said a borrow-er
can't include guaranteed student
loans in any bankruptcy proceedings
for five years after leaving college, ex-cept
in " extreme hardship cases "
The recent changes in federal law
broadens that protection to include oth-er
types of student loans also
" The law is now applicable to educa-tional
loans funded by the government,
schools or non- prof- it organizations,"
Ayres said
So far, the University hasn't needed
to use the law since it became effective
last month
Ayres said guaranteed student loans
help the student and the University
Students who normally can't afford an
education are allowed to pay for it af-ter
graduation, and the University gets
additional students who wouldn't be
able to attend without loan assistance.
But he said the system doesn't work
when students fail to repay their loans.
Not only is the money lost, but the de-fault
rate can affect the amount of
money available for future students
After graduation, a student previous-ly
had three alternatives concerning
loan repayment
v Pay off the loan and maintain a
good credit rating.
Default on the loan and face possi-ble
prosecution by either the school or
the federal government
Pile for bankruptcy and eliminate
the loan along with other debts
After graduation, many students
have problems paying their bills, and
some are tempted to try the third alter-native
They have been ante to wipe
out through bankruptcy, their debts
and make a fresh start with diploma in
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